Metal freight-car.



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` L. T. GARFIELD.

METAL FREIGHT GAR.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEWIS T. CANFIELD, OF SORANTON, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THESTERLINGWORTH RAILWAY SUPPLY COMPANY, OF EASTON, PENNSYL-V VANIA, ACORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

METAL FREIGHT-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part f Letters :Patent N0. 690,559, dated January7, 1902. Application iiled November 9, 1901. Serial No. 81,778. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEvvIs T. CANEIELD, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Scranton, in the county of Lackawanna and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in MetalFreight-Cars, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to improvements in 1o metal freight-cars; and theobject of my invention is to provide a new and improved metalfreight-car which is simple in construction, strong, sti, light, anddurable.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of referenceindicate like parts in all the views, Figure 1 is an elevation of oneside of my improved metal freight-car at the corner thereof. Fig. 2 is alike View of the adjacent end at the corner thereof.v

2o Fig. 3 is a plan view of the corner of the car, parts being insection and others broken away. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one endof a channel-bar cut for use, but not bent. Fig. 5 is a sectional planview of a modification.

2 5 The side and end walls of the c'ar are formed of channel beams orbars A, placed vertically on flanges, the flanges riveted together, andthe bottom flanges are to' be riveted to a car-unde1'frame,which may beof any desired 3o construction. The flanges C of the channelbars arepreferably mitered,as shown,and the end channel-bars are carried acrossthe width of the car-body and out o rectangular-ly at the ends. Thechannel-beams forming the sides are cut longer than the sides, and atthe ends the top and bottom langes of the channel-beams are cut away toform wings D of less width than the channel-beams and tting in betweenthe top and bottom flanges,

4o and these wings are bent over rectangularly,

so as to rest on the outer surfaces of the web parts of the endchannel-bars,as`shown. These rectangularly bent wings D are then rivetedto the webs of the channel-bars, forming the ends of the car. It isevident that just as well the side channel can be cut 0E square and thewings formed on the end parts of the end channel-bars and lapped andriveted to the end parts of the webs of the side channel= bars. Ifdesired, such Wings may be formed on the ends of the end and sidechannel-bars and one wing lapped on the outside and the other on theinside and riveted to the Webs of the channelQbars, as shown in Fig. 5.l

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is y 1. A freight-car having its sides and endsformed of channel-bars placed vertically on flangesv and the flangesriveted together, some' of the channels having wings at the ends whichwings extend beyond the ilang'e's of such channel-bars and which wingsare bent upon and riveted to the Webs of the other channel-bars at thecorners of the car, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. A freight-car having its sides and ends formed of channel-bars placedvertically oil flanges and the flanges riveted together, each bar havingat each end a Wing extending beyond the flanges and bent rectangularupon and riveted to the web of another channelbar, substantially asherein shown and described.

Signed at Scranton, in the county of Lackawanna and State ofPennsylvania, this 16th day of April, A. D. 1901.

LEWIS T. CANFIELD.

Witnesses:

JAMES J. CORBETT, AARON A. CHASE.

